Visual Culture : The Reader

Visual Culture provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines, including four editorial essays which place the readings in their historical and theoretical context. Although underpinned by a focus on contemporary cultural theory, this reader puts issues of visual culture and the rhetoric of the image at center stage.

Notes on contributors

ix

Acknowledgements

xv

What is visual culture?

1

(8)

Jessica Evans

Stuart Hall

Part I Cultures of the visual

9

(12)

Introduction

11

(10)

Jessica Evans

A Rhetorics of the image

21

(38)

The natural attitude

23

(10)

Norman Bryson

Rhetoric of the image

33

(8)

Roland Barthes

Art, common sense and photography

41

(10)

Victor Burgin

Myth today

51

(8)

Roland Barthes

B Techniques of the visible

59

(66)

Panopticism

61

(11)

Michel Foucault

The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

72

(8)

Walter Benjamin

The image-world

80

(15)

Susan Sontag

Separation perfected

95

(4)

Guy Debord

The bottom line on planet one: squaring up to the Face

99

(26)

Dick Hebdige

Part II Regulating photographic meanings

125

(14)

Introduction

127

(12)

Jessica Evans

C Theorizing photography

139

(72)

On the institutions of photography

141

(21)

Simon Watney

The social definition of photography

162

(19)

Pierre Bourdieu

Reading an archive: photography between labour and capital

181

(12)

Allan Sekula

Photography's discursive spaces

193

(18)

Rosalind Krauss

D Institutions and practices in photography

211

(96)

The museum's old, the library's new subject

213

(11)

Douglas Crimp

Living with contradictions: critical practices in the age of supply-side aesthetics

224

(20)

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Evidence, truth and order: a means of surveillance

244

(30)

John Tagg

Feeble monsters: making up disabled people

274

(15)

Jessica Evans

Marketing mass photography

289

(18)

Don Slater

Part III Looking and subjectivity

307

(8)

Introduction

309

(6)

Stuart Hall

E Theoretical perspectives

315

(64)

Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes towards an investigation)

317

(7)

Louis Althusser

Fetishism

324

(3)

Sigmund Freud

The scoptophilic instinct and identification

327

(13)

Otto Fenichel

The subject

340

(16)

Kaja Silverman

Fantasia

356

(14)

Elizabeth Cowie

The other question: the stereotype and colonial discourse

370

(9)

Homi K. Bhabha

F Gendering the gaze

379

(36)

Visual pleasure and narrative cinema

381

(9)

Laura Mulvey

Desperately seeking difference

390

(12)

Jackie Stacey

White privilege and looking relations: race and gender in feminist film theory

402

(9)

Jane Gaines

Sexuality in the field of vision

411

(4)

Jacqueline Rose

G `Seeing' racial difference

415

(54)

The fact of blackness

417

(4)

Frantz Fanon

Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of America

421

(14)

Mary Louise Pratt

Reading racial fetishism: the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe

435

(13)

Kobena Mercer

Dark continents: epistemologies of racial and sexual difference in psychoanalysis and the cinema

448

(9)

Mary Ann Doane

White

457

(12)

Richard Dyer

Index

469

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